If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again…

“Free! Free at last!”

Mr Hyde

From: Dr Jeckyll and Mr Hyde – 1931

Congratulations to young Mr Renzi: finally he (almost) made it! Not so easy to become the Prime Minister without a new general election and after you have lost the primaries before the last general election… But skilfully assuring support (or even withdrawing it) to this and that he finally get rid of all those (in his own party, PD-Democratic Party) who dared to cross his path, the whole old Democratic Party leadership, the man who won the primaries and the old Democratic Party’s leader (who were in fact the same person, Mr Bersani), the now ex-Prime Minister Mr Letta (also a member of PD dismissed without ceremony), the idea itself of “Left” … and then the most impressive miracle, the “resurrection” of good ol’ MrB(ersuconi) (in fact the man to whom young Renzi resemble the most), not to mention the incredible promises he made today: every month a new reform!!! (the twenty-year-old MrB’s slogan “Less tax for everyone” pale into insignificance compared to this).

Wow, Congratulations, congratulations once again… If the parliament will assure him its confidence he’ll be the youngest Prime Minister in the history of the Italian Republic and will lead our government during the semester in which Italy will hold the Presidency of the Council of the European Union. What a superhero!

But I’m not just congratulate him, I also want to thank him with all my heart: finally he set me free! I’m free now, free from that unpleasant feeling of moral constraint that so many times (but not every time, I must confess) during the last twenty years drove me to vote for the Democratic Party just because, after all, it was the only way to possibly defeat the now-resurrected MrB. Finally I’m free, free to vote for a left party next time.